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Grocery prices up by leaps and bounds

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A bag of 2% milk (4 litres, about 1 US gallon) and a loaf of bread - $7.96

Last January, a small tub of cole slaw that I like was $1.29. Today, it is $1.99. Seedless cucumbers were 79¢ each. Last Friday, they were $1.49. This morning, they are $1.69.

The poor just keep getting poorer simply by doing what they must do: Eat.
 
tell me about it. When I moved to Toronto from elsewhere in Ontario $5.00+ was the new norm for milk. Even in the same chain. At the A&P where I used to live it was $4.79, now it's $5.12 or so.

I'm poor, and it forces me to do very, very un healthy things. For example, Price Chopper Last week had Swanson TV Dinners on sale for a $1 each, SO UNHEALTHY, but I bought the limit because thats all I can afford.

Thats what frustrates me more than anything. The fact unhealthy food is so much cheaper than good food. Even stuff like fruit. $1 for two lemons a year ago, $2 for three now...
 
It is not only in Canada...

Here in the states groceries jumped upwards of a 1.50 or more within a week.

It is rather disturbing as well as disgusting when you are trying to feed everyone in your house hold nutritious food...

I have myself, my hubby and my mother to feed...

Not easy since our garden died because the drought...

This winter should be interesting to say the least...
 
Eat lots of beans and soups.

You can buy the skankiest vegetables and make a great soup out of them.

Ask your butcher if they can give you the bones from the boneless breasts of chicken and then get some cheap chicken cut.

Peanut butter is still one of the most economical spreads you can use.

Look to the chinese diet. Lots of bulk, little meat. Tons of flavour.

Milk actually isn't that great for older people because we tend to develop more lactose intolerance.

Look for more local winter vegetables now. People get used to eating everything out of season. Fuel prices and bad harvests mean that summer veggies like cucumbers etc will be more expensive.

You might do well by getting the ugly tomatoes off the rejects cart too. They can be simply stewed or added to various dishes.

I swear that the easier it is for us to eat expensively, the cheaper feeding ourselves has become, because we make almost everything from fresh seasonal ingredients and as I noted, we look to the diets of Asia and third world countries to see how we should likely be eating.
 
I'm always amazed that the government is allowed to change the "basket of goods" they use to determine the cost of living increases...

Cost of living has dramatically increased this year -- on a lot of fronts...

Fuel prices have gone up mainly due to the intentional weakening of the U.S. dollar (to make our debt payments cheaper) -- and that translates into price increases for EVERYTHING...

I've noticed that trips to the grocery store are WAY more than they used to be -- we just spent $181 on our last trip and I think we only had 6 or 8 plastic bags of groceries...

Thanks for the break down -- I haven't kept as close of track as you have...

:):):)
 
I haven't noticed prices rising too much on most of the item I buy. I think fresh produce is what is rising the most. I try to buy generic/store brands on whatever I can. Such as on things where the quality won't vary much like on canned items such as corn or sweetened condensed milk. Where the price doesn't vary much I may buy the name brand. I then check the price per unit to compare. Recently I bought some chips and salsa and bought the least expensive name brands.

I shop mostly as Walmart neighborhood market and I'm still amazed that their half and half only costs $1.65 per quart. A quart of name brand milk costs more. They used to see the Marie Callendar's frozen meals for $1.88 but adjusted it to $2.50 which is still a great value. I think they sold to a big company which lowered prices and a little on the quality too, but they used to cost around $4.50. The fried fish meal with rice and broccoli with cheese is really good.
 
metta said:
I have heard from people in the food industry that food prices will really increase next year....some as much as double.
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Oh wonderful!

Look I understand about eating more bulk food such as rice and pasta and the like, but I am not only responsible for feeding myself, I have my man and my elderly mother, whom hates rice all together.

I do buy pasta and make my own sauce, enough to freeze so we have plenty.

Where we live there is a total of ONE grocery store. The others are over fifty miles one way. And gas is 2.98 a gallon.

I have given up on fresh produce, example apples are 6.00 a bag, I think it is a 5 lb bag, onions which I use a lot in cooking has risen to 8 bucks a bag and they are tiny bags mind you.

Bread we won't go into... and you need bread to make PB&J....

I bought a whole cut chicken last week because they were out of whole friers. 9$ My mother wanted homemade chicken soup.

I don't do soda, milk I use for making biscuits and cereal.

My mother also likes cube steak, that has risen to 10 freaken dollars for four of them.

Like I said before I try to feed everyone nutritious food that will satisfy and be good for all of us. I cook all of our meals it has become a real chore.

As for beans, there are just so many damn beans you can eat and in the elderly they be a bit to digest.

All that pre-made shit has way toooo much salt in it as well as sugar and who knows what else.

It is sad when you can eat more shit food for your dollar than you can eat healthfully. But I have known that since I first started shopping for myself...

It is going to get to the point where you can only eat Ramen noodles and water...
 
rareboy said:
Peanut butter is still one of the most economical spreads you can use.

Milk actually isn't that great for older people because we tend to develop more lactose intolerance.

Fuel prices and bad harvests mean that summer veggies like cucumbers etc will be more expensive.
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I always have peanut butter on hand. It often goes hand in hand with the bananas I eat.

I have no problem with lactose and, with my back problems (which are bone related), I drink as much milk as I can afford.

I dont buy potato chips or Fritos corn chips or Hickory Sticks (which I used to enjoy very much). Cucumbers are my snack food.
 
A couple of years ago, rice prices soared due to bad harvest or need at the place of origin. The same has happened to wheat.

During the summer, we saw fires raging across parts of Russia - this caused the government to stop wheat exports, so this naturally lead to more demand and over pricing. Bread and wheat products are more expensive now.
 
star-warrior said:
A couple of years ago, rice prices soared due to bad harvest or need at the place of origin. The same has happened to wheat.
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Same has happened with coffee and orange juice and sugar and many other products. Funnily enough, though, the prices never come down again when there is a surplus the following year.
 
I remember when I was a kid, a full-size bag of Doritos was $2.00. Now, a small bag of Fritos costs $3.99.

What my family does, is insteat of eating beef, we get a big 3-pound box of ground turkey meat for $3.00. lasts a few days. Spending $5-10 dollars per meal is simply out of the question, so we stretch as much as we can.
 
I never really look at the prices !oops! but I do know that 5 years ago, I used to spend a rough average of $60 each time I went to the store and now it is around $100-150 and I go about the same amount of times. A part of that has to do with spending a bunch more on high quality greek yogurt and organic kefir though
 
I haven't noticed any change in grocery prices yet.

I went grocery shopping yesterday and bougth a 36 pack of bottled water (Aquafina) for about 4 bucks. Great deal.
 
Sultan said:
I haven't noticed any change in grocery prices yet.

I went grocery shopping yesterday and bougth a 36 pack of bottled water (Aquafina) for about 4 bucks. Great deal.
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Great deal for Aquafina... :lol:

The marketing firm that conceptualized bottled water must be drowning in cash...

:):):)
 
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